We ate this

Remember last’s year’s “We ate this” post? Might have to bring it back. Not that we were exactly bombarding you with recipes all year, but we do have a different reason – an experiment that I’m hoping to reveal later on in the Fall. We’ll see. I just hope that we retain the motivation and steam that this project requires. In the meantime, you might get some sneak peeks on Instagram. My friend Anna correctly observed that Instagram is like a giant spoiler for blog posts. So true!

And so…we ate this the other night. Clams with a lemongrass coconut mint broth. And yeah, that is totally an Ikea toy frying pan that the spaghetti is in. Oh and that cutting board under the corn is from a Melissa and Doug wooden food set. We’re sooo fancy. Maybe I need to buy proper food styling props. Or maybe this is why I find food styling tedious, because we don’t have nice dishes, hmmm…

I’m not sure what you are up to… but I’m sure it’s gonna be fantastic 🙂
I hear ya on the food styling. In some ways I love seeing perfectly styled shots with perfectly mismatched plates and perfectly coordinating but not to matchy-matchy napkins. But then I picture the closet of props and feel like I woulf be overwhelmed with the urge to purge at 2am! There is something refreshing about seeing food photographed in a way that I imagine it would actually still be warm enough to eat!

Yum. And no matter what you use to style food, you are still my Gourmet mag replacement for food photography!

JennaJune 21, 2012 at 3:52 pm

@Karina Oh, that would require a recipe wouldn’t it? Ha! Often times Mark just wings it, which is why we aren’t really the best at writing recipes for the blog.

LizJune 21, 2012 at 5:38 pm

This looks lovely and I love your food shots. I really like that everything isn’t in or on fancy things. (And I love the super dark background in this and in some of your recent instagrams. Is this a surface in your kitchen? Does asking this making me sound stalker-ish? Sorry if it does…)

And good look with the motivation and steam. Maybe this will be something to look back on next June?

JennaJune 21, 2012 at 7:18 pm

@Liz – the dark background is the girls’ drawing table.

LizJune 22, 2012 at 4:32 am

Thanks for telling me about the drawing table – it is such a great background! (It’s made me think about surfaces for our kitchen…)

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Jenna is a designer, photographer and co-founder of Whimsy & Spice, a Brooklyn-based bakery. Sweet Fine Day is a visual journal of two entrepreneurs juggling parenting, business, and family life in NYC.